1,653 Quotes About Story

People didn’t know everything then. There were things people had never seen before. Places nobody had ever been. You could make up a story and people would believe it...also maybe it seems like it would be okay not to be perfect. Nobody was perfect back then. Just about everyone was defective, and most people had no choice except to stay that way.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

One could use a pen to write a story, but it's a heart that bleeds the words.

And if she spent rather more time with her nose in a book than was considered ideal at that time (or any other), well, at least that meant she always had a story to tell.

Together we created a story, alone I wrote a book!

It is good they can still joke and laugh. It offers nothing to the storyteller. But in the face of the inevitable, defiant joy is effort and reward both. It is how to survive, and it is why.

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

I who have copied down this story, or more accurately fantasy, do not credit the details of the story, or fantasy. Some things in it are devilish lies, and some are poetical figments; some seem possible and others not; some are for the enjoyment of idiots.